#Soviet film

[welldonekhushi]

Presenting you, Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Yuri Detochkin from "Beware of the Car" (1966) vs. Lord Hamlet from "Hamlet" (1964)!

Two of my favorite roles of his, had the urge to draw him so bad because he's way too spectacular. It's like the sun and moon at the same time 😂

[candlelightsinner]

A collection of my favourite film posters of the 1987 classic Mališa directed by Boro Drašković. From top left to bottom right:

1. Original Yugoslavian release, 1987

2. Soviet Belarus release, 1988

3. Soviet Russian release, 1988

4. French release, 1987

5. East German release, 1987

6. Serbian-British limited re-release, 2017

[russianfolklore]

Baba Yaga portrayed by Soviet actor Georgy Millyar.

Georgy Frantsevich Millyar was a Soviet and Russian actor, best known for playing evil spirits in Soviet fairy tale films, including the witch Baba Yaga in films such as Vasilisa the Beautiful, Jack Frost, Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes and The Golden Horns.

[fibula-rasa]

Хоббит. Сокровища под горой / The Hobbit: Treasures under the Mountain (1991)  

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Director: Roman Mitrofanov

Cinematographer: Konstantin Ineshin

Note: This is an unfinished adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit

[aldenhan]

Natasha and Pierre throughout several adaptations of War and Peace

[BBC War and Peace (2016), War and Peace (Bondarchuk, 1965-1967), War and Peace (Prokofiev), BBC War and Peace (1972), War and Peace (1956), War and Peace (2007), Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Malloy)]

[empirearchives]

Semyon Mezhinsky as Napoleon Bonaparte in the Soviet film, Kutuzov, dir. Vladimir Petrov, 1944

It looks like the filmmakers either used face prosthetics or some sort of editing to make the actor look more like Napoleon. His nose, for example, was changed to look a lot more like Napoleon’s nose. I think it turned out really well and looks very accurate.

[destalva25]

A Year as Long as Life / Год как жизнь (1965)

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Andrei Mironov as Friedrich Engels

Igor Kvasa as Karl Marx

[katchwreck]

Soviet film posters

1: 1927 poster for the film “First and Last”.

2: 1927 poster for the film “Zare” — a Soviet/Armenian Drama released in 1926.

3: 1927 poster for the film “Two Worlds”, starring Hans Merendorf and Maria Leiko.

4: 1928 Poster for the Film “The Third Wife of the Mullah” by Iosif Gerasimovich.

5: 1927 poster of the film “Where is the man? He has left to go see 'The Girl with the Hatbox'.” by Semyon Semyonov-Menes.

6. 1927 poster for the film “October” (Sovexportfilm) — One of the most significant Soviet films of the 1920s. This is a historical and revolutionary film made for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution.

7: 1925 poster for the film “The Golden Reserve” by Anatoly Belsky.

8: 1923 poster for the first Soviet Azerbaijani feature film: “The legend of Maiden Tower”.

9: 1930 poster of the film “Judas (Antichrist)” — a black and white silent film. A psychological drama of a priest who decided to break with religion, “unmasking the counterrevolutionary role of the clergy during the Civil War”.

10: 1927 poster for the film “Dark Forces”.

[yonamatsuri]

the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov.

[darklilalemon]

The zone demands respect, otherwise it will punish you.

Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film "Stalker" probably has been the best film I have seen in the last year. The film has an enigmatic quality that draws you in and keeps you, slowly step by step, as you venture further and further into the zone.

During the entire time one spends in the zone, the viewer is put on edge. The lingering feeling of unease grows and grows as the film progresses. The viewer is never given the mercy of a release of that tension either, the film never stops to give the viewer a threat or a jumpscare to be afraid of. Instead, you begin to feel like the zone itself is alive, and is hunting the protagonists. The Stalker himself certainly seems to be aware of this, while his companions and the viewer are, initially, unaware of this threat.

Cleverly alternating wide shots, which depict the group isolated, outsiders in a place where they do not belong, carefully making their way into the zone, with close-up shots, often framed through a dilapidated window or doorframe. Visually the zone is slowly swallowing up the group, encompassing them as they get closer to its core.

The last scene in the zone, in front of the room, is chilling. As the men tussle and unravel themselves in front of the room, talking about hope, their desperations, and human nature, the room entices them with songs of birds and leaves in the wind. While the three men stare into the room, into their desires, the camera moves back into the room, not allowing the viewers to see their desires but instead submerging them and making them part of the room, leaving behind the three broken men.

[welldonekhushi]

Finally drew Smoktunovsky's Hamlet. I'll say and I'll keep saying it again, he was FANTASTIC. The acting. His way of talking. I'm in love, your honor.

Original reference from the film!

Don't tell me I was the one who kept simping for this madman I FELT MYSELF LIKE *passes out on the floor*

[candlelightsinner]

Mališa (1987), directed by Boro Drašković, starring Bogdan Diklić, Milena Dravić, Predrag Manojlović, and Jelisaveta Sablić

The original poster for the Soviet-Russian release of the (censored) film in 1988. The bourgeois characters and the archduke are clearly highlighted as villains, the scene were Mališa steals the diamond earring is put into the centre of attention. The finely nuanced politics and ethics of the original film are thereby flattened in accordance with Soviet ideals.

[gromhellscream]

so, I have a pirate from Soviet Treasure Island 8)

[fibula-rasa]

Хоббит. Сокровища под горой / The Hobbit: Treasures under the Mountain (1991)  

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Director: Roman Mitrofanov

Cinematographer: Konstantin Ineshin

Note: This is an unfinished adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit

[annoyingthemesong]

SUBLIME CINEMA #640 - DERSU UZALA

By the time Kurosawa was offered Dersu Uzala by Soviet studio Mosfilm , he had just attempted suicide after a short-lived, failed Hollywood career and a string of unsuccessful films. This movie was made during that period of shakiness, funding droughts, and deep depression for the director, whom Darryl Zanuck had recently declared mentally ill.

It turned into one of Kurosawa’s best and most self-reflective works, and it’s his only 70mm outing. The film is shot entirely on eye level, keeping you oriented as a spectator to an ever encroaching vastness of the Taiga - where the film was made, under grueling conditions.  

I’ve never seen a good transfer of this, and I’m not sure one exists; this is almost a forgotten Kurosawa but deserves a solid restoration. 

[matyas-ss]

Stalker (1979)

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Cinematography by Alexander Knyazhinsky